Exam 10: Memory

________ is a memory system that includes short-term memory and executive processes that control attention and retrieval.

In a classic study of eyewitness accounts and leading questions, people were shown short films showing car collisions. How did the wording of the questions about the accidents influence participants' estimates of the speed the cars were traveling at the time of the collision?

Another name for the parallel distributed processing (PDP) model of memory is the:

Flashbulb memories, unlike other memories, are accurate records of the past.

________ acts as a holding bin, retaining information in a highly accurate form until we can select items for attention.

________ memory refers to a vivid, detailed recollection of an emotional event.

Long-term memories undergo a gradual period of consolidation before they "solidify" and become stable.

George Miller's famous estimate of the capacity of short-term memory is the "magical 2 to 20 range."

________ is an especially vivid memory of an emotional event.

Procedural memory is defined as the conscious, intentional recollection of an event.

Which of the following ways of measuring explicit memory are usually the easiest for the person being tested?

The inability to distinguish what you originally experienced from what you heard or were later told about an event is called source misattribution.

Chad remembers the feeling of excitement in his house when his mother stepped through the door with his new baby sister. He can still picture the tiny little baby with a stocking cap on her head! His parents can't convince him that he actually stayed with his grandparents for two weeks after his sister was born and that his memory never happened! Chad's memory is an example of:

The parallel distributed processing (PDP) model of memory represents the contents of memory as connections among a huge number of interacting processing units, distributed in a vast network and all operating in parallel.

A practiced juggler relies on __________ memory to keep the balls in the air.

According to the decay theory, forgetting occurs because:

In the three-box model, all incoming information from the outside world must make a brief stop in the sensory register.

In general, psychologists agree that the inability to remember experiences during the first years of life is due to the defense mechanism of repression.

When a word is on the "tip-of-the-tongue," what errors are likely until the target word is recalled?

A long-lasting increase in the strength of synaptic responsiveness is called long-term potentiation.